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Show News from the Washington County People -At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts In Medical Air Corps Sheriff and Mrs. Antone B. Prince received word over the week end that their son, Clayton A. Prince, entered military service Aug. 6th at March Field, Calif., as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Medi-cal air corps. Graduating in March, 1943, from the University of Southern California Cali-fornia dental college, with the highest record ever attained over the full four years by any graduate, grad-uate, Clayton passed the California state board, then came and passed the Utah state board exams, he returned to accept a position as instructor in the institution from which he took his degree. He has filled that position until his call into military service. Pa les Pa J. Sullivan Promoted Recent reports from Camp Lee, Va., bring word of the promotion of John R. Sullivan to the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was commissioned July 30, after completing com-pleting the 13-week-course for officer of-ficer candidates at the Quartermaster Quarter-master school at Camp Lee. Training under rigorous conditions, condi-tions, Lieut. Sullivan's courses included in-cluded military training, physical hardening and mastery of weapons varying from a .30 caliber rifle to the 37 mm. gun. Selection oi men for these courses is made b special boards throughout the Army, the requirements including initiative, military aptitude, intelligence, intel-ligence, civilian experience anc Army record. a ra s Peterson Charles Writes Still overseas and enjoying his work, is Peterson Charles, sor of Foster Charles of the local reservation. res-ervation. His letter written July 14, is the first his father has hac for several months, and enclosed two snapshots, one taken with, another soldier and one with a sailor. From his cheery letter one gets the idea that Peterson enjoys Army life, and he says he keeps plenty busy. Among his instructions instruc-tions to his dad, are "Be good anc ..... work hard, and of course, don't take any wooden nickels." B R Si Cpl. Fullerton's Birthday Friday, August 13, marked the birthday anniversary of Cpl. Walter Wal-ter Fullerton who is stationed at Fort Smith, Ark., and he made it a real event by talking to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fullerton, Ful-lerton, and sister, Roma, over the telephone. They told him the weather was pretty hot, but he said St. George was comfortably cool compared with his location and they had to work right out in it. He said he was well and wished he and his brother Sgt. Alex Fullerton could have a furlough at the same time so he could see if he could tell the Sergeant off without being assigned as-signed to K. P. duty. R !9 Calls At News Office Pfc. Warren Bushead called at ' the News Office for a few minutes min-utes Monday. He is home on furlough fur-lough for the first time during his 18 months of military service, most of which he has spent in ' the Pacific theatre of war, after ' receiving h i s basic training at ' Camp Robinson, Ark. 1 Pfc. Bushead looks trim and ' fine in his uniform, which he says : is a little too heavy for Dixie, ' but just right where he is located. Warm as the weather is, Warren I figures he'd be plenty happy if ' the big job was over and he ' could stay home now, instead of having to go back, but since there's work he can do, he's going back to help with it. Pss i Capt Andrns Transferred Mrs. Calvert Andrus and baby ' girl left last week for Ft. Belvoir, ' Va., where they will join Cap-tain Cap-tain Andrus and make their home 1 for the present, since the Captain 1 has been transferred there recently re-cently with the Engineers Division ; of the Coast Guard, in what is ; termed a permanent assignment. Mrs. Andrus and the baby have - been in St. George for a visit I (Continued on page eight) News from the Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts (Continued from page three) from Indio. Calif., where Captain Andrus was last stationed. Her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Andrus accompanied them as far as Salt Lake City and saw them onto the train for Fort Belvoir. fts Fa S3 Completes "Boot" Training A short note received last week from Emil Mace Graff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Graff of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, indicates that he has completed com-pleted his "boot" training and is a Seaman Second Class. He expresses ex-presses appreciation for the service serv-ice the News "is giving the fellows fel-lows in the service", and for the copy of the paper which reaches him each week. Seaman Graff is now attending the U. S. N. hospital school at San Diego, which means he has successfully suc-cessfully passed the required examinations, ex-aminations, to permit him this promotion. tci pa Transfers Overseas Complying with requirements, so as to have his copy of the News follow him overseas, Pvt. Francis E. Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Hughes of Mesquite, writes his request to that effect from North Africa. He says he enjoys the paper very much and looks forward to each issue. Besides Be-sides the main articles and soldier news he is especially interested in the correspondence, since he knows so many of the people mentioned. By now, he has been overseas close to five months and says many interesting things have happened hap-pened to him, along with sightseeing sight-seeing trips to interesting historic cities. He has had good hunting trips and seen many interesting animals and birls which were before, be-fore, just in the picture books. Africa, he reports, is different from what he anicipated, but he likes it. The French people treat the soldiers with much respect and often invite them to family dinners or other entertainments. Their post exchange is exceptionally exception-ally good and they have three shows each night, plus an occasional oc-casional show tagged by the different dif-ferent units. But with all the good things there, he will still be glad to get back to the good old U. S. A., when that time comes. 9 'Brown' Hail Leaves Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. (Brown) Hail left Monday morning for Palm Springs, Calif., where Brown his training begins this week with the 122nd ferry command, in which he enlisted and was accepted while in California recently. He f has been home for two weeks ; with his mother, Mrs. Leda S. . Hail, awaiting his orders which ' came by phone Sunday. After completing his training with the E. L. Anderson School of Flying in St. George several : months ago, Brown was retained as an associate flight instructor Until the local program closed up. , He could have continued with the same type of work at larger centers, cen-ters, but says the ferry command ; looked good to him and he was ' happy to find he could get in. Sa Si G- Lang Completes Training The A. A. F. pilot school of Hobbs, N. M., reports that Flight Officer Golden Lang of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, Utah, has completed the pilot-transition four-engine course there on Aug. 9th. Flight Officer Lang was appointed ap-pointed a flight officer and received re-ceived his pilot's wings at Stockton Stock-ton Field, Calif., May 20. 1943'. Completion of his transition training train-ing at Hobbs Army air field quali ties mm as a combat pilot. He is the son of John M. Lang of this city and is prepared now, the school reports, to meet any Axis challenge. a Pa W. Tbtiler Graduates Graduating from the armament department of the Lowry Field Army air force training command in Colorado, is Pfc. Wendell Ence Tobler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ern-est Tobler of Santa Clara. Although Al-though he is a farmer, he is making mak-ing good in his war work. Wendell attended the lower division di-vision of Dixie junior college and was prominent In basketball and bottball before his induction. He entered training at Fort Douglas, taking his basic training at Fresno. Calif., and began his armored course at Buckley Field, Denver, graduating at Lowry Field Tuesday, Tues-day, Aug. 17th. Pa Pa Pa Sgt. Bryant In Alaska While in St. George last week Mrs. Thelma Bryant reported on their son. Sgt. Melvin Bryant, and advises his parents that he is well and enjoying his work. Difficulties with his eyesight made it impossible for Melvin to get into the air training while he was here, but was happy to report re-port to his family that this defect de-fect has been corrected and he is now learning to fly, which makes him feel plenty happy. Pa Pa Pa Austin Iverson Writes Austin Iverson of Washington, who entered the Navy early in June, has finished his "boot" training train-ing and now writes his name with the added Seaman 2c. In this connection he was transferred re-1 re-1 cently to Long Beach, Calif., where he is assigned to attend the sheet-metal sheet-metal school. Prior to entering the service, Seaman Iverson was employed for several months at the Kaiser shipyards ship-yards in Oakland, and figures his experience there is responsible for his "break" he has now, and for which he is very grateful, in spite of the work it requires. Pa Pa Sa Lieut Dean Snow Visits Home once again for a little visit with his parents, Pres. and Mrs. Harold S. Snow, is Lieut. Dean B. Snow, who has this travel privilege enroute from Nashville, Tenn., to the Davis Monthan Field in Tucson, Ariz. To a lot of the boys who get no furlough at all, it seems like Dean surely goes get the breaks, but Dean says maybe they wouldn't like his job and have to move as often as he does. For instance, he has made three major moves in the last six weeks and there's more of them ahead. He is still with the Army air corps and flying the larger craft. Pa Pa Pa Pvt. W. McArthur Home Pvt. Walter McArthur arrived home last Thursday from Gilroy, Calif., where he has been in military mili-tary training for the past year. He has been given complete discharge dis-charge from the service and says he will be home at other work unless for some reason he might later be recalled. Pa Pa a Returns To Camp McCoy Pvt. Thomas W. Turnbeaugh returned re-turned last week to his training post at Camp McCoy, Wis., after visiting in St. George for several sev-eral days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Turnbeaugh and other relatives. Pvt. Turnbeaugh is in the Reg, Trucking division, says he likes Army life and the grand men he works with. However, the one military man respected by officers offi-cers and men alike is the Chaplain. Chap-lain. He is the one to whom they take their joys and their troubles, and no matter what church a soldier sold-ier belongs to, he can always count on the Caplain to hear him, understand him and if need be, advise and console him. Mr. - and Mrs. Turnbeaugh, accompanied ac-companied by their daughters, Mrs. William Biggs of Mohave, Calif., who has been home during her brother's furlough; and Mrs. Orval Michael and children, accompanied Pvt. Turnbeaugh as far as Salt Lake City, where they visited another an-other daughter, Mrs. Max Bauer and husband. |